A flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long. So when a distant star shines five billion times brighter than our sun, you know it ain’t long for this world. NASA’s Hubble Telescope began filming a time-lapse of the SN 2018gv supernova in 2018, less than a year before it fizzled into the ether.
NASA’s Hubble Telescope Filmed an Exploding Star Brighter Than 5 Billion Suns